Tobacco lath



Feb.. s, 1927.

M. LAVITT ToBAcc-o LATH Filed May 2l', 1925 ,n....iaitama'-- 1,617,062

MAX LAVITT, on ELLINGTON, coNNncTIcUT- TOBACCO LATH. i

Application filed May 21, 1925.l Serial No. 31,918.,

My invention relates to the class of dereduces. the liability to injury of the tovices that are employed for the purpose f bacco vvhen itis being removed from the hanging tobacco after being cut and taken laths. l f

from the stalk` and an object of the inven- In carrying my invention into 'eect YI tion, among others, is the production of a take a lath 10, that is composed of any 55 type of tobacco lath that maybe produced suitable material, as Wood, having the deat a minimum cost, that shall be durable, sired characteristics, and to this lath I seand one from which tobacco may be removed curey a number of hooks 11V projecting pref? in an expeditious manned. erably from oneV `of the Widest faces of the 4 One form of device embodying my inlath, rthese hooks being all extended in the-GO' vention and in the construction and use of same direction and preferably in line length-` Which the objects herein set out, as 'Well as Wise of the lath, and as shown in Figure 1 others, maybe attained, is illustrated in the of the drawings; In the preferred form of j accompanying drawings, in Which- Yconstruction these hooks are arranged in 15 Figure 1 is a face vieW of a tobacco lath pairsq the members of each pair being formed 65 embodying my invention. at the ends of branches 12 of U-shaped pieces f Figure 2 is anedge View of the same. of metal in the form of staples 13, said Figure 3 is a VieWin cross section through branches being forced through the material the lath. Y of the lath and the ends beingrthen bent AS is Well known, tobacco, after being into the `form of hooks thatv are spaced a 70 cut` is hung in tobacco sheds or Similar sufficient distance from the surface ofthe buildings for the purpose of drying, a comlath to enable the 'stems 14 of the ltobacco n mon method being to suspend the tobaccoA leaves 15 to be readily placed upon the hooks by means of laths to Which the tobacco is Without interference by the lath,l in this opsecured, the lends of the laths being placed eration the stems being pierced by thehooks.l 75

` upon cross pieces supported at suitable in# By the use of laths thus constructedthe -tervals upon beams of the building, or tobacco may be readily placed thereon with .upon beams placed for such support. Al littlev liability to injury of thelea.ves,`and a l common method employed for drying aty the further and material advantage resides in` .so present time,'is to suspend each leaf by its the removal of-the leaves, WhichV operation 80 stem separately from other leaves, as distinmay be quickly accomplished by a sweeping guished'from suspending theleaves upon action of the. handr lengthwise along `the an ent-ire stalk, and this method of single lath from one end to the other, thereby rapleaf suspension requires a very large numidly removing allof thev leaves from a lath ber of laths, running into Vhundreds of with little liability of injury to theleaves 85 thousands inplantations of not uncommon in such removal. i I,

size, and as the laths under the conditions In accordance vWith/the yprovisions of the of use soon become broken and otherwise patent 'statutesl I have described` the prinuseless` thereby necessitating their replaceciples of operation of my invention,l to- 40 ment, it is yoi vital importance. that` they gether With thede-vice Which I noW consider 9U be produced at a very loW cost. My invento represente-the -best embodiment thereof; tion illustrated and described herein accom- 'but I desire to haveV it understood that the plishesthis purpose andenables the laths device shown is`only illustrative and that not only to be produced at a minimum cost, the invention may be carried out vbyother but in. addition' a lath is provided from means and applied to uses other thanvthose .9'

which thetobacco may be very readily reabove set out. moved and in a very expeditious 'mannen I claim- Y j I and this is a very-material consideration 1. Aj tobacco lath comprising a bodyv With l asy it reduces the cost ofV handling theto.- Staples projecting therethrough and havbacco after it has been hung, and it also ing brancheseach formed in a'hook, said 100 Vlengthwise of the lath.

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hooks being spaced from said body to re- 3. A tobacco lath eoinprisingaJ body With ceive the ends of the stems of tobacco leaves staples each having its branches projected 10 between the hooks and said body. through the lath from one side to the other K 2. A tobacco lath comprising a body With and extendingz, therefrom on the opposite 5 staples projecting therefrom and having side, seid extensions ,being formed into branches each formed into a hook, said hooks hooks all projecting inthe saine directionv being all extended in the same direction lengthwise of the lath. I f Y MAX LAVITT. 

